AVT

Auditory-Verbal Therapy is a specialized type of therapy designed to teach a child to use the hearing provided by a hearing aid or a cochlear implant for understanding speech and learning to talk. The child is taught to develop hearing as an active sense so that listening becomes automatic and the child seeks out sounds in life. Hearing and active listening become an integral part of communication, recreation, socialization, education, and work.

• The philosophy of Auditory-Verbal Therapy (AVT) is for deaf and hard-of-hearing children to grow up in a regular learning environment, enabling them to become independent, participating, and contributing citizens in mainstream society.
• AVT maximizes the use of the child’s aided residual hearing for the detection of sound to develop self-monitoring skills.
• AVT is based on teaching parents, during their child’s individual therapy sessions to emphasize residual hearing and interact with their child using the auditory-verbal approach.